Blind Children’s Center is a nonprofit early childhood education center in Los Angeles that provides free, inclusive, family-focused services for children from birth through age five and for pregnant mothers, with specialized expertise in supporting children who are blind or visually impaired.
Blind Children’s Center is a nonprofit early childhood education organization serving children from birth through age five and pregnant mothers. The Center emphasizes inclusive, family-focused services and specialized support for children who are blind or visually impaired.
The program integrates parents, caregivers and extended family into the educational process and provides bilingual family support, parent education, and one-on-one strategy sessions. A multidisciplinary team uses adaptive devices and technology to support sensory development, mobility, and early literacy skills.
The Center implements established early childhood curricula and adapts learning with individualized supports and adaptive equipment. The campus covers about one acre with two playgrounds for adaptive outdoor play; the site also provides on-site meals (breakfast, lunch and a snack). A recent renovation updated classrooms and campus infrastructure to meet ADA standards and expand capacity.
A parent-attended early intervention program that uses the Parent as Teacher curriculum; parents/caregivers attend with their children two days each week in a small-group setting and receive coaching, strategies for development and support navigating medical and educational systems.
Inclusive preschool classrooms implement the Creative Curriculum and offer individualized support for students who are blind or visually impaired, including training to optimize remaining vision, sensory development, orientation and mobility (including cane travel), and pre‑Braille literacy; the program provides adaptive outdoor play on two playgrounds and a healthy breakfast, lunch and snack.
A center-based, inclusive toddler program using the Creative Curriculum; classrooms accommodate small groups (noted capacity of eight children) with approximately half of the class having visual impairments or other disabilities and provide individualized supports, adaptive equipment and adaptations of the curriculum.
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